Paneling doors.



H. W. PHILLIPS.

PANELING DOORS.

APPLICATION FILED uxso, 1910.

Patented July 26, 1910.

HARRISON WILLIAM PHILLIPS, OF MUSCA'IINE, IOWA.

PANELING DOORS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 30, 1910.

Patented'July 26, 1910. Serial No. 558,671.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRISON WILLIAM PHILLIPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Muscatine, in the county of Muscatine and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Paneling Doors, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a paneled door of simple and inexpensive construction, in which the moldings for securing the panels in place will fit tightly against the panels and the adjacent portions of the door rail to thereby form tight joints, and to firmly hold the panels in position.

My invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the various parts, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Wl1lCl1 Figure 1 shows a sectional view through a door embodying my invention on the dotted line 1, 1, of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of a door having my improvement applied thereto, and Fig. 3 shows an inside face view of a panel rail forming part of my invention.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate the panel rails. Each rail is provided on its inner face with two grooves 11, and each groove has one straight side 12, and the opposite side 13 inclined inwardly and away from the side 12 to form a tapered groove narrowest at its bottom. Between the said grooves is a rib 14, and beyond the grooves are the flat surfaces 14?. For each of the said grooves I provide a molding comprising a body portion 15, having a wedge shaped extension 16, designed to enter the grooves, and also having a rib 16 extended outwardly from the molding to overlap the adjacent fiat surface 14:. The side of the molding opposite from the rib 16 is fiat and is indicated by the numeral 17. The inclined part of the molding is indicated by the numeral 18 as shown in Fig. 1. The panel is of the ordinary size and shape and is indicated by the numeral 19. The thickness of the panel is preferably slightly greater than the thickness of the rib 14. As shown in Fig. 1, the said moldings are held in place in the ordinary way by means of small nails 20, extended through them and in o the rib 14.

In practical use I first place one of the moldings in position in the panel rail. I

then place the panel in position resting inner ends thereof that overlap the panels,-

will press firmly against the said panel so that the inner edges of the molding will engage the panels just as firmly as the central portions of the molding. By means of this assembling of the door members, it is obvious that the material of the panels will be firmly compressed at the points where it is engaged by the moldings, so that tight joints may be provided between the mold ings and the panel, and between the mold ings and the panel rail, even though the panels themselves vary in thickness. In order that a tight joint may be madebetween the moldings and the panel, it is necessary that the rib 14 be of slightly less thickness than the average panel, and with out the ribs 16 it is obvious that there would be a tendency for the outer edges of the moldings, within the grooves 11, to tilt toward each other, and it is necessary to overcome this tendency by means, such for instance as the ribs 16 engaging the shoulders 14*, to thereby tend to tilt the inner edges of the moldings toward the panel.

I claim as my invention:

1. A paneled door comprising panel rails provided with grooves having their outer faces beveled or inclined to provide tapered grooves, smallest at their bottoms, a panel adjacent to the panel rail between said grooves, and a tapered molding fitted into one of said grooves, and having a fiat side designed to overlap the panel and also hav ing a part projecting outwardly from the other side to overlap the panel rail and to engage the panel rail to thereby force the part of the molding that engages the panel int-o firm contact therewith, for the purposes state 2. paneled door comprisinga panel rail, having two parallel grooves therein, the outer sides of the grooves being beveled or inclined, and also having a rib between the grooves and flat shoulders adjacent to the outer edges of the grooves, a panel in the door adjacent'to said rib, and of slightly greater thickness than the rib and two moldings each being -flat on-one side and provided With, a ta ered portion on the ot11er-side-to engage he tapered'portion of HARRISON WILLIAM IHIIDLIPS.

WVitnesses:

RALPH J. LILLIBRIDGE, FRED G. PETERSEN. 

